WGCTV Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

All applicants must be:

  1. Students working at either master’s or doctoral level in film and media studies within Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies departments.
  2. Presenting a paper on a panel at the ASEEES Annual Convention.

*Recipients of the ASEEES Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

Deadline

October 10, 2025  (All applicants will be notified of their status by November 1st, 2025)

Applications

Complete the online grant application form https://forms.gle/SC2VrR6uom1DsAh29

If you have questions, please contact Daria Ezerova (President) de347@cam.ac.uk or Olga Kim (Bursar) ok4​@williams​.edu

About WGCTV

Founded in 1991, WGCTV is a professional organization of film scholars and critics dedicated to the study of cinema and television of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union.

The goals of WGCTV are to facilitate and improve the research and teaching of the area’s cinema and television and to advance multicultural understanding. WGCTV is dedicated to serving its members’ professional needs and preservation of film and television heritage of the region. Activities of the group include an annual business meeting and coordination of professional communication.